The recent discoveries of planets in distant solar systems has led to a deeper understanding of how solar systems could evolve. When finding a new planet, one of the most obvious things to look for is its movements, how its orbit look like and at what speed does it travel. This can tell us things…
Stargate Universe 1×11 Space Review. Air date: April 2, 2010. SGU returns with midseason premiere with the episode “Space†and with first aliens.
Mimas picture gallery. Mimas closely resembles the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, which is also said to be several hundred kilometers in diameter.
Big Bang, black holes, CERN, Large Hadron Collider news. One of the greatest experiments in our history. Big Bang theory video.
China will launch their first space station Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace) in 2011 and it will dock with a Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in orbit around the Earth in 2011.
Asteroid Apophis is expected to pass close to the Earth in 2029 and again in 2036. Russian scientists are preparing to boldly go where no man has gone before, except for the team of Bruce Willis in Armageddon movie.
The Year 2009 will end with a Blue Moon Eclipse – people from Europe, Africa and Asia can see a beautiful blue moon eclipse today.
GJ 1214 b – planet with water and atmosphere.
SpaceShipTwo got a new name – VSS Enterprise at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port.
A supernova is a stellar explosion. Supernovae are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy, before fading from view over several weeks or months. During this short interval, a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun could emit over its life span. The explosion expels…
Herschel, the largest infrared telescope ever launched, is designed to study some of the coldest objects in space, located deep in a region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is still largely unexplored. Its massive one-piece mirror, which is almost one-and-a-half times larger than Hubble’s, is delivering sharper images of the stars with coverage of a…
